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Strategy, History, & Goals

Ends, ways, and means. Terrorist organizations are familiar with these concepts and the development of strategy too. Over the course of our history the CTC has studied and released reports and articles about terrorist goals and strategy. Browse the content below to learn more.

October 6, 2024

Tehran’s Tactical Knockout: Weaponized Pharmaceutical-Based Agents

Matthew Levitt

A Draw Is a Win: The Houthis After One Year of War

Michael Knights

The October 7 Attack: An Assessment of the Intelligence Failings

Michel Wyss

September 11, 2024

Nihilism and Terror: How M.K.Y. Is Redefining Terrorism, Recruitment, and Mass Violence

Marc-André Argentino, Barrett Gay, Matt Bastin

Islamic State-Somalia: A Growing Global Terror Concern

Caleb Weiss, Lucas Webber

A View from the CT Foxhole: Rosalind Nyawira, Former Director, National Counter Terrorism Centre – Kenya

Kristina Hummel, Samuel Bowles

Commentary: The Global Jihadi Terror Threat in September 2024

Edmund Fitton-Brown

August 13, 2024

The History and Future of the Nordic Resistance Movement

Peter Smith

The Financial Future of the Islamic State

Jessica Davis

The Death of an Islamic State Global Leader in Africa?

Austin Doctor, Gina Ligon

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